Intel Core Ultra 7 268V vs Intel Core Ultra 5 226V

Compare Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 8 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5659 points

5864 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8803 points

9087 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4696 points

4886 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4485 points

4689 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

116.39 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

109.57 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9715 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

8824 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2434 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2229 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz

4% slightly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

16 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

14 MiB

Identical

14 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

286th of 1,099

270th of 1,099

Family

The product line

Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-8533

Core Ultra 7 268V vs Core Ultra 5 226V benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 5 226V performs better than the Core Ultra 7 268V. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 7 268V in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 7 268V has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 5 226V. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core Ultra 7 268V also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Core Ultra 7 268V has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.